Huma Mahmood Abedin (born July 28, 1976[1]) is currently a director working on the transition team[2] of former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.[3] She served as traveling chief of staff and "body woman" for Clinton during Clinton's campaign for the Democratic nomination in the 2008 presidential election.[4][5]
Abedin was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan. When she was two years old, her family moved to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Both her parents were educators. Her father, Syed Zainul Abedin, was born in India in 1928, was an alumnus of Aligarh Muslim University, and later received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He died in 1993.[6] Her Pakistani mother, Saleha Mahmood Abedin, also received her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, and is currently an associate professor of sociology at Dar Al-Hekma College in Jeddah.[3][7] Abedin returned to the United States to attend George Washington University.
Abedin began working as an intern for the White House in 1996 and was assigned to Hillary Rodham Clinton. She currently works for Clinton in the State Department.[8] In 2010, Abedin was included in Time's "40 under 40",[9] a list of a "new generation of civic leaders" and "rising stars of American politics".[10] At a celebration before Abedin's wedding to Anthony Weiner, Clinton said in a speech, "I only have one daughter. But if I had a second daughter, it would [be] Huma."[11]
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